Nokia Seeks To Accelerate Industry 4.0 Expansion With Expanded Industrial Edge Applications
New Applications Will Assist With On-Premises Operational Technology
Nokia has released four third-party applications for MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) to assist enterprises in securely connecting, collecting, and analyzing data from their on-premises operational technology (OT) assets.
By adopting Nokia’s OT edge ecosystem-neutral approach, which incorporates innovation from various digitalization enablers, asset-heavy industries can accelerate their digital transformation and benefit the most. These new applications also use the recently introduced GPU capability on Nokia MXIE, a powerful on-premises OT edge solution that allows for real-time data processing closest to the source while preserving data sovereignty.
What Is Nokia MX Industrial Edge (MXIE)?
Nokia’s MX Industrial Edge hardware platform is designed to deliver top-tier performance for complex industrial workloads through the use of resource optimization and 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors. It features an end-to-end high-availability architecture for unparalleled reliability and resilience, and it also provides support for geographical redundancy to ensure continuous business operations.
MX Industrial Edge’s support for graphics processing units (GPUs), which enables versatile inference acceleration, is critical for enterprises that require real-time video monitoring, alerts, and advanced video analytics for mission-critical applications, such as quality assurance and safety.
MXIE also places a strong emphasis on enterprise security with app-to-app data isolation and TLS-based communications. To maintain stable high performance, the platform offers integrated tools for end-to-end service management, combining platform resource management, network QoS management and prioritization, multi-APN support, and dynamic feedback on network resource availability.
Third-Party Applications To Assist With Data Collection and Analysis
Companies that are in the process of digitalizing their operations are likely to encounter various obstacles, including issues with gathering, integrating, and analyzing various data types from diverse systems and sensors, as well as ensuring that sensitive data is protected once shared with other cloud ecosystems.
With the reliable 4.9G/5G private wireless connectivity and the low-latency processing capabilities of Nokia MXIE, these industry-leading applications can help companies overcome these challenges by making enterprise data secure, usable, and actionable. As a result, transformative use cases can emerge, encompassing early alerts and anomaly detection, condition monitoring, preventive and predictive maintenance, digital twins, and more. All of these use cases help boost operations and increase return on investment.
- Atos Computer Vision – Quality Inspector: Part of the Eviden business within Atos Group, Atos Computer Vision – Quality Inspector is a solution that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance productivity and quality in manufacturing settings. The solution utilizes advanced deep learning techniques to detect foreign objects, defects, incorrect configurations, and anomalies in real-time using AI-based video analytics. The addition of the new MXIE GPU feature enables businesses to quickly produce models that attain high precision, even in demanding situations.
- Crosser: A low-code streaming analytics and integration platform for industrial IoT and Industry 4.0 that offers pre-built modules and connectors for building intelligent data flows and pipelines. It allows for the creation of live loops of streaming data to ingest transformed data into any machine, cloud, service, or digital twin.
- Litmus Edge: An industrial edge data platform that unifies data collection, normalization, contextualization, and analytics at the edge and cloud. With nearly 300 pre-built device drivers and integrations, it addresses asset monitoring, anomaly detection, energy consumption, forecasting, predictive maintenance, and more. It also includes digital twin and machine learning models to improve efficiency and profitability.
- Palo Alto Networks Next-Gen Firewall: An advanced security solution powered by Palo Alto Networks that uses AI and ML to prevent cyber threats in the OT environment, the software’s Next Generation Firewalls (VM-Series and CN-Series) deployed on MXIE offer industry-leading capabilities such as Advanced Threat Prevention, Advanced WildFire, and DNS Security to protect the entire organization with best-in-class security. IoT/OT Security quickly profiles all OT, IT and IoT devices and assets, and protects them, enabling advanced security on both the IT and OT sides of the network.
Nokia Partners With Kyndryl – The World’s Largest IT Infrastructure Service Provider
In addition, Nokia has partnered with Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, to provide LTE and 5G private wireless networks and Industry 4.0 solutions to enterprises worldwide. By combining Kyndryl’s network and edge advisory and integration services with Nokia’s private wireless networks, customers can achieve high-performance wireless connectivity in mission-critical environments.
The Nokia MXIE acts as a converged compute platform that supports private wireless networks’ core operation and hosts a multitude of OT edge computing applications. By leveraging Nokia MXIE, Kyndryl helps customers implement end-to-end industrial use cases with a single orchestrated on-premises edge for both private wireless and digitalization enablers. This approach improves sustainability across industrial verticals such as manufacturing, energy, and gas, and mining, from predictive maintenance and worker safety to quality assurance.
With advanced Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) edge platforms that provide a holistic view of enterprise-wide data and offer advanced security, enterprises can accelerate their digital transformation to meet Industry 4.0 standards and create maximum business value.
About Nokia
As a B2B technology innovation leader, Nokia is pioneering networks that sense, think and act by leveraging our work across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. In addition, they create value with intellectual property and long-term research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs.
Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital services and applications of the future.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl is the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider serving thousands of enterprise customers in more than 60 countries. The Company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex, mission-critical information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com
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